On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:57:31AM -0400, John Lockard wrote:
> For backing up a laptop locally, bacula seems to be HUGE
> overkill. How long will you be keeping these backups? How many
> backups will you be keeping? My guess is that you'd be better
> served by a little scripting, rsync and cron.
>
> Each day, establish a new directory by date, then hourly run rsync
> to that location.
> Or, Each day establish a new directory by date, create
> a "watcher" file, then hourly run a 'find [dir] -newer
> /path/to/watcher' to establish a list of files which have
> changed, then 'touch /path/to/watcher'. From the list of
> files which changed, tar them to backup location.
>
> Depending on how you want to keep files, you'll either have
> a date directory (/backups/20090527) with all of the days
> changed files in it, or you'll have a date directory with hourly
> subdirs with the hourly changes (/backups/20090527/01, etc.).
>
> Then, when you're back at the office, where the bacula server
> is, you kick off a backup manually which will backup your
> /backups directory.
Thanks for your kind suggestions, anyway I have already managed to get
bacula working on my laptop to do backup hourly for my documents.
I save them to another home directory on the harddrive. Aside from
installing a postfix mysql server on my laptop, it works ok..
Regards,
>
> -John
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:29:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:50:52PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
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> > > John Drescher wrote:
> > > >>> So, if you run backups locally to an external disk, you could back up
> > > >>> the
> > > >>> catalog by taking an ascii dump of the database, and copying the dump
> > > >>> file
> > > >>> to the same disk used for actual backup data.
> > > >> So Can I just back the directory where the database is?
> > > >>
> > > > That is not a good way to backup a database. You need to run mysqldupm
> > > > instead and backup the text file it generates.
> > >
> > > What John said.
> > >
> > > Not only does this ensure that your backup contains a valid MySQL dump,
> > > it also exercises the database. That is, the act of running mysqldump
> > > reads every part of the databases and dumps it out. If there is any
> > > 'hidden' problem with the databases, chances are, you'll find out about
> > > it during the dump process itself.
> > >
> > > Said explanation applies to all databases IMHO.
> >
> > Thanks John and Dan for pointing out this for me. I will definetely do
> > that.
> >
> > Zhengquan
> >
> > >
> > > - --
> > > Dan Langille
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